Genome of <i>Rhodnius prolixus</i> , an insect vector of Chagas disease, reveals unique adaptations to hematophagy and parasite infection

D. Mesquita, Rafael; J. Vionette-Amaral, Raquel; Lowenberger, Carl; Rivera‐Pomar, Rolando; A. Monteiro, Fernando; Minx, Patrick; Spieth, John; Bernardo Carvalho, Antonio; Panzera, Francisco; Lawson, Daniel; Torres, André; M. C. Ribeiro, José; Henrique Ferreira Sorgine, Marcos; M. Waterhouse, Robert; J. Montague, Michael; Abad‐Franch, Fernando; Alves‐Bezerra, Michele; Rodrigues do Amaral, Laurence; Araujo, Helena; N. Araújo, Ricardo; Aravind, L.; C. Atella, Geórgia; Azambuja, Patrı́cia; Berni, Mateus; Bittencourt‐Cunha, Paula; Regina Cardoso Braz, Glória; M. Calderón‐Fernández, Gustavo; M. A. Carareto, Cláudia; Christensen, Mikkel; Costa, Igor; Costa, Samara; Dansa, Marílvia; R. O. Daumas-Filho, Carlos; F. De-Paula, Iron; A. Dias, Felipe; Dimopoulos, George; Emrich, Scott; Esponda-Behrens, Natalia; Fampa, Patrı́cia; D Fernández-Medina, Rita; Nunes da Fonseca, Rodrigo; Fontenele, Marcio; C. Fronick, Catrina; A. Fulton, Lucinda; Caroline P. Gandara, Ana; S. Garcia, Elói; Ariel Genta, Fernando; I. Giraldo-Calderón, Gloria; Gomes, Bruno; C. Gondim, Kátia; Granzotto, Adriana; A. Guarneri, Alessandra; Guigó, Roderic; Harry, Myriam; S. T. Hughes, Daniel; Jablonka, Willy; Jacquin‐Joly, Emmanuelle; Patricia Juárez, M.; Barbosa Koerich, Leonardo; B. Lange, Angela; Manuel Latorre-Estivalis, José; Lavore, Andrés; G. Lawrence, Gena; Lazoski, Cristiano; R. Lazzari, Cláudio; R.S. Lopes, Raphael; Gustavo Lorenzo, Marcelo; Delorence Lugon, Magda; Majerowicz, David; L. Marcet, Paula; Mariotti, Marco; Masuda, Hatisaburo; Mégy, Karyn; Claudia A. Melo, Ana; Missirlis, Fanis; Mota, Theo; G. Noriega, Fernando; Nouzová, Marcela; Dutra Nunes, Rodrigo; L. L. Oliveira, Raquel; O. Silveira, Gilbert; Ons, Sheila; Orchard, Ian; Pagola, Lucía; O. Paiva‐Silva, Gabriela; Pascual, Agustina; G. Pavan, Márcio; Pedríni, Nicolás; A. Peixoto, Alexandre; H. Pereira, Marcos; Pike, Andrew; Polycarpo, Carla; Prosdocimi, Francisco; Ribeiro‐Rodrigues, Rodrigo; M. Robertson, Hugh; Paula Salerno, Ana; Salmon, Didier; Santesmasses, Didac; Schama, Renata; S. Seabra-Junior, Eloy; Silva-Cardoso, Lívia; A.C. Silva-Neto, Mário; de Souza Gomes, Matheus; Sterkel, Marcos; L. Taracena, Mabel; Tojo, Marta; Tu, Zhijian; M. C. Tubío, José; Ursic-Bedoya, Raùl; M. Venâncio, Thiago; Beatriz Walter‐Nuno, Ana; A. Wilson, Derek; C. Warren, Wesley; K. Wilson, Richard; Huebner, Erwin; M. Dotson, Ellen; L. Oliveira, Pedro

doi:10.1073/pnas.1506226112

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Genome of Rhodnius prolixus , an insect vector of Chagas disease, reveals unique adaptations to hematophagy and parasite infection

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Nov 16, 2015

Authors:

Rafael D. Mesquita

Raquel J. Vionette-Amaral

Carl Lowenberger

Abstract

Rhodnius prolixus not only has served as a model organism for the study of insect physiology, but also is a major vector of Chagas disease, an illness that affects approximately seven million people worldwide. We sequenced the genome of R. prolixus, generated assembled sequences covering 95% of the ...

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Rhodnius prolixus

Chagas disease

Rhodnius

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